The Road, Friends and Creating a Book

Last Wednesday I spent the night in this house – the Madison House Bed and Breakfast in Girard, Kansas. My room was huge and very comfy.

I stayed in Girard because I was doing another session for rural tourism folks on how to use social networking Thursday morning. It would have been nice if I’d had more time to enjoy the room, but I got there late and left early the next morning.

The bonus was that Greg went with me. Girard is only about 45 minutes from Joplin, where his mom lives. Steve is visiting and he came over to pick Greg up in Girard so I got to see him very briefly.

It was funny hat night, I guess.

This weekend I have taken it very easy. I had a long lunch with Annie Saturday, which was really fun. Then Saturday night Trish invited me over for chili with her, Teresa and Patti, who I had not met before. It’s really comforting to have someone cook for you. I forget how lovely that is.

Today I’ve been trying to get some things done around the house, but I confess I haven’t accomplished much. But, I have gotten some things off my to-do list this weekend that I really needed to take care of – a graphic design job and the materials prepared for the book I’m working on of my columns from Kansas Country Living.

Some time ago they gave me permission to create a book from the columns I’ve written for the magazine over the years. Earlier this summer I started gathering them up and got copies through inter-library loan of some I didn’t have on hand. This weekend I got them all organized. Now I have to decide if I want to write anything additional or just combine them into a book.

I sometimes think I need to stop looking for projects, but they seem to find me.________________

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